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Welsh Government continues to downplay housing crisis as need estimates go down

Despite a national housing crisis, Welsh Government estimates published today (30th January) have dropped the projected need for new houses by hundreds compared to a previous estimate in 2015.

These confused estimates dramatically contradict the binned Holmans report, which recommended to the government that 12,000 homes a year may be needed in Wales to combat a desperate need for new houses.

Despite expert recommendations, the Labour government has been barely managing to build half of this figure, as Welsh Conservative and Shadow Housing Secretary David Melding AM revealed at the end of 2018. The number of new dwellings built in the period October 2017 to September 2018 was 6,043.

David Melding AM, the Shadow Minister for Housing, Heritage, Culture and Media, has today paid praise to Cardiff Metropolitan University Football Team after they reached the early stages of the UEFA Europa League Competition.